Shane Meeks's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Mouse hover event over a range of cells in Excel using VSTO

  Hi I have placed a similar thread to this previously but have not had too much success. I thought I would put it up and maybe word it differently. Neither VBA nor VSTO provides a mouse over or hover event. I need to be able to capture this event in VSTO within the office application and determine when certain users are hovering over a cell with the mouse. I am also an accountant who has turned to the dark side of programming. So if you do have some code to support this, it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all for reading this. Cheers Dave Edelman Hi Dave, If you want to do this, you'll need to d ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS .Net 2005, how to disable intellisense...

  Hi I am really frustrated with the performance of VS .Net 2005. This is because I always see at the bottom "updating intellisense..." and it uses 60% to 70% of CPU. How to disable this updating of intellisense... Please this is making Visual studio unusable. Thanks Chandra Try going to Tools menu -> Options ->Text Editor -> C# -> Intellisense and uncheck the option "Intellisense pre-selects most recently used members". Then click OK. Does this help It does not disable Intellisense, but it should turn off background upates to the recent list. If you are fcing more problems please mention what's ...Show All

• SQL Server Hundreds Of VIEWS

  What are the downsides to have many multiple views on a SQL Server Database It was somebody's design decision to create 10 views for each vendor in our database- that could range from 20 to 500 vendors ... which means we could potentially have 5000+ views in our database. What is the downside/problems with doing this This issue still exists for us, and I fear it creeping up against us in the near future- so basically, Report Models use views- and when referencing the view, the system does not allow you to pass in a parameter to call a stored procedure or anything in order to filter out individual ...Show All

• Visual Studio "sgen.exe" exited with code 1

  I am trying to build a project in VS 2005 but I am getting the error: Error 67 "sgen.exe" exited with code 1. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets 1892 9 TAI.Util This project had been building just fine earlier today. The only thing that happened between is I refreshed the web references in this project. As a test I added the same web references to a new project and it builds just fine. I'm also experiencing a similar problem. When i change the build options in the ConfigurationManager, i often get this error. The only way I've f ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) UI like MS Max

  Hello, a few days ago I downloaded the latest WinFX Components and the SDK. I tried to create a look like the Microsoft Max application. But the whole look of my created application is the same as normal xp applications. Can you give me some hints to create this look Thanks a lot Jens You need to look into templates and styles. If you just use the controls as is, you'll end up with their default styles which are designed to look like the platform. If you want to have custom look and feel, you have to change the template of the controls. There are a lot of resources out there on the web to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my VB thang

  I posted this here , but realized it may have been in the wrong place. WDIK     yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my project. OK, here's another newbie question. I run a third party app.  I've been able to take data from that app, and by "pasting as link" into excel, manipulate the data (yes, "paste as link" was a new discovery for me, so now you get my level of experience). Now I want to do more stuff with this data, stuff that is cumbersome in a spreadsheet.  It would seem to me that if I can paste it into a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX 9.0c problems

  I bought a game called the movies.when i go to play it a message comes up saying that my computor may be running an old version of directX and other mumbo jumbo.I have updated my directX to the highest point and installed it and everything but when i go to play the game the message still comes up! I have tried every thing there is but I still can't play the game! If any one knows how to help please help me!! My E-mail is: Dougie321@hotmail.co.uk There were some dll files excluded from Microsoft's DirectX SDK... this could be what is missing. If this is the case, you will get errors telling you thin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to order Visual Studio 2005 Trials

  On different days I have tried to order Visual Studio 2005 Trials but I keep getting the following error message after I enter my shipping address and then press enter: "An unknown error occurred while processing your request. This is most likely due to a connection failure. Please try again." What should I do to order Visual Studio 2005 Trials TIA BTW I am trying to order from the Europe, Middle East and Africa section of MSDN. I have come across someone in England experiencing similar problems to me. ...Show All

• SQL Server For XML data retrieval

  How to add line breaks after each node when I use "for xml explicit" I would appreciate it for any suggestions. Mark, Thank you so much! I feel I almost get there. I use dbcc traceon(257) and see the link breaks. I have a question to save the file I have sql script that return xml via "FOR XML EXPLICIT" clause. I can specify output to file in Query Analyzer. Is it possible to save output file as file extension .ctl I would like to send you the file format to you if it could save your time and understand better for the file format I want. My email address is fancorning4@yahoo.com ...Show All

• SQL Server New RDL Spec differences

  Is there somewhere that explains the major differences between the 2003 RDL spec and the new one released in November I will be going through the two specs in detail in January looking at the differences but I was just wondering if there's a quick synopsis out there somewhere. Are there any major differences Darren I guess I'll answer my own post in case anyone else out there is interested.   First the end of the new spec has a very brief and incomplete lists of the changes. The important changes I found were the following: 1) InteractiveWidth and InteractiveHeight subelements added t ...Show All

• Visual C# DLL Files

  You can create an DLL so that you can easy deploy this with more projects. There are no performance penalties, when a DLL is needed it will be loaded and it stays loaded untill the application ends. For your development it can be handy to have multiple projects (DLL's) and for the update process it can be usefull to. The user doesn't have to download a very large .EXE file when you only updated one class for example. You can sepperate them by namespace, just as the .NET Framework does. MyApp.Data < MyApp.Data.dll > MyApp.Data.Gateway MyApp.Data.Gateway.Mssql MyApp.Data.Gateway.Access MyApp.Data.Gateway.Webservice MyApp.Net ...Show All

• Visual C# check internet connection + internet speed

  how to check if PC is connected to internet using C# 2005 and on what speed it's connected To check the internet access: Response.Redirect (“http://....”); About the speed connection I will try to find somewhat out. Maybe later. Have a fun! Valentin MCP C# Do not hesitate to contact me! www.wwv-it.eu valentin.welter@t-online.de ...Show All

• .NET Development Parsing a custom DateTime....

  I have data in an XML source which I am attempting to bind to a DateTimePicker control. The problem I am having is that the text format in the XML is yyyyMMddhhmmss (no hyphens or colons) and so the parser is reporting a conversion error. dateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat .Custom; dateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "yyyyMMddhhmss" ; dateTimePicker1.DataBindings.Add( "Text" , Oval.generator, "timestamp" ); So how can I get the text parsed correctly, given that I know it conforms to that format. It seems that the CustomFormat property only deals with how to format the output. Re ...Show All

• .NET Development Filtering Dataset

  After filling a dataset I would like to further filter the results without repopulating the dataset.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much for all your help.  It's the part that I was missing.  Thanks again. ...Show All

• SQL Server File..Save Copy of <package file> As... not available

  According to the help for SSIS, one method of deploying an SSIS package to a SQL Server,  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137565.aspx, is to use the File...Save a Copy of <package file> as... menu option.  I don't have that menu option at all.  And yes, the package is in focus.  My save menu options are simply; Save Selected, Save <package file> As... and Save All. I am using Version 9.00.1399.00 of the SSIS Designer. At one time I did have the Management Studio's CTP installed.  However it was uninstalled before installing the tools from the Standard Edition.  (it ...Show All